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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
5. Evergreen shrubs of north temperate regions.
10. A master's degree in business.
13. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
14. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
15. An informal term for a father.
16. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
18. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
19. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
20. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
21. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
23. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
25. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
26. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. A young woman making her debut into society.
33. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
36. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
39. The capital of Croatia.
41. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
42. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
43. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
46. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
47. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
50. An associate degree in applied science.
52. Melon having yellowish rind and whitish flesh.
55. A river in southeastern Australia that flows generally northwest to join the Darling River.
59. An herb with milky juice.
62. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
63. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
64. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
66. On or toward the lee.
67. A doctor's degree in education.
68. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
69. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
2. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
3. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
4. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
5. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
6. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
7. An informal term for a father.
8. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
9. Informal terms for a mother.
10. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
11. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
12. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
22. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
24. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
27. The sixth month of the civil year.
28. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
30. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
32. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
34. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
35. A small cake leavened with yeast.
37. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
38. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
40. The capital of Morocco.
44. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
45. A decree that prohibits something.
48. Cruel or inhumane treatment.
49. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
51. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
52. Informal terms for a mother.
53. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
54. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
56. A public area set aside as a pedestrian walk.
57. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
58. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
60. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
61. Not divisible by two.
65. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
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